Tennis? Lame! Seventies? Way too long ago! Tell a true story? How unimaginative! Donald Trump thinks he shit? I have to see the movie!

The idea: why the movie came about

When it became known that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were battling for the job as President, the sympathetic director pair Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris had a grandiose idea: Why not accompany this historic presidential election with a film about a similar historical event?

So they shot the movie "Battle of the Sexes" about a legendary tennis game from 1973, in which feminist, professional athlete and later geoutete lesbian Billie Jean King against the somewhat aged tennis star and Wimbledon winner Bobby Riggs pulled into the tennis battle.

The result was not so much a tennis match as a great and sensitive story about emancipation, cohesion, psychic struggles and chauvinism.

© 2017 Twentieth Century Fox

The Story: Protest against the Gender Pay Gap

At the beginning of the 70s professional tennis players in the USA had a problem that we are all still struggling with today: a huge gender pay gap. While women were prized for their short skirts on the court, men were respected for their speed, strength, and athletic performance. But they paid the gentlemen eight times as much prize money as women.

What did the tennis ladies do around star player Billie Jean King (excellently played by Emma Stone) when they did not want to do that anymore? They demanded more! Unfortunately, they were only laughed at by the greats and powers of the tennis world? and excluded from the national championships. So the players put on their own female-only championships and had a lot of fun and success.

© 2017 Twentieth Century Fox

The highlight: the revenge of the Chauvis

Such an act of emancipation, of course, the 70s Chauvis found more than off. What did these females complain about with their unshaven legs? Your serves are slower than the men? So they are worth less.

One of those Chauvis of the time was the former professional player Bobby Riggs. In the film, Steve Carrell embodies him, which is why he stupidly acts extremely sympathetic, amiable and funny on the big screen. But whatever? In every Chauvi can theoretically also put a good core ...

Anyway, this Riggs wants the defiant emancipates again in their place and demands first the ranking first, Margaret Court, and then the second Billie Jean King for the match.

© 2017 Twentieth Century Fox

The clash with reality: Trump wins the election

Now, the directors had imagined that with their idea and the film so that President Hillary Clinton would invite them into the White House and they should show him there? Finally, it is about emancipation, equal rights and the realization that a woman never needs to be afraid of a duel with a man.

But then Donald Trump won the election and, as it has not turned out to be a bad nightmare until today, nothing came of the White House premiere.

Instead, the movie is coming to cinemas at a time when we've been discussing sexism for weeks now that it has been discovered that women - whether influential Hollywood stars or normal people? still suffering from patriarchy.

The directors had not guessed that, but in fact their film seems even more worth seeing and commendable under this circumstance than it would have been under the first American president.

Because "Battle of the Sexes" can inspire us. The film shows us how much we can achieve if we stick together, believe in ourselves and play to our strengths. If we stay tuned, is the era of the tartar soon over? and then a trump can not do anything.

Battle of the Sexes (2017) - scene comparisons (April 2024).